What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction.
Your car doesn’t get the kind of fuel economy you’d hoped. Many people have that idea in their heads these days, and the anecdotal evidence (at least) seams to support these claims. But (and there’s always a “but”, isn’t there?) what if that’s not true? What if the EPA’s MPG estimates are actually conservative, and [...]
Scooters are really amazing little vehicles. They’re fun, practical, and (with 100+ mpg scoots being the norm, rather than the exception) more than carry their weight in the fight to ease Americans off of their oil addictions. One thing most scooters are not, however, is fast. Cue: Twist n’ Gone. Twist n’ Gone celebrates the [...]
The United States Post Office is dirty, inefficient, and – after failing to pay back the $12 billion loan it got from the US Gov’t – hemorrhaging cash at an alarming rate. Total collapse (in the form of not being able to pay employees, pay bills, or buy stamps) has been looming for over a [...]
Among certain circles in America, there is a growing fear of the Chinese. The people in line ahead of me at a Wisconsin Wal-Mart this weekend (I was in a Wisconsin Wal-Mart this weekend) said “the Chinese is gonna take over”, and a sharp cat from a well-known Chicago publishing house told me earlier this [...]
Bentley’s latest new platform, the 9F “concept” SUV shown earlier this year, has met with … I think “mixed reviews” is the polite way of saying that everyone hated it, right? Anyway, everyone hated it, and Bentley’s hoping you’ll give it a second chance by thinking of it as “slow and green” instead of “fast [...]
Let’s say you live in California (hypothetically). Next, let’s say you wanted to get a package from your address in California to another address in California. Finally, let’s say that you wanted your package to get to its new California home (from its old California home) quickly and efficiently. Pay special attention to “quickly and [...]
Jalopnik readers believe hybrid SUVs represent the no. 4 biggest “Green” car failure … and I don’t think they’re wrong. I’m a big fan of the gearhead guys at Jalopnik. They coined the phrase “robogasm“, introduced the world to everyman rally-hero Bill Caswell, and called me a genius advertising folk a few years back. Flatter [...]
Sixty-eight BILLION US-American dollars. That’s approximately equal to a metric s***ton of money (even in 100s and 50s), and it’s the amount of 2012 dollars that American consumers could save on gas each year if Barack Obama’s 2030 fuel standards get implemented, according to the NRDC. That savings, by the way, would mean reduced transportation [...]
